Shadowrun: Hong Kong Launches Kickstarter Campaign

Developer Harebrained Schemes has begun work on a new Shadowrun game and is turning to Kickstarter for additional funding.

Called Shadowrun: Hong Kong, the new game is set in Hong Kong in the year 2056, and entangles the player in the corrupt criminal underworld while also thwarting the threat of a supernatural force. It's being developed for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

According to creator Jordan Weisman, the decision to move Shadowrun to Hong Kong was based on player recommendations to shift the series' setting after Shadowrun: Dragonfall.

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The $100,000 USD funding goal for Shadowrun: Hong Kong has already been successfully met, and at the time of this writing sits at $126,481, with 34 days remaining in the campaign period.

Kickstarter funding isn't the end-all for Shadowrun: Hong Kong, however. Weisman explains that the game is already in development and is targeting a mid-2015 release date, regardless of Kickstarter success.

"The game is budgeted, fully-staffed, and on schedule for a mid-2015 release," Weisman said in their Kickstarter video. "As is often the case around here, we have a lot more cool ideas than fit in that budget. And that's where you come in."

"By backing the game, you increase our production budget, and that gets more game. Last time, you funded the entire game. This time, it's more of a co-funding proposition, which is something a studio of our size might go to a publisher for."